Ali - Steve Schapiro, Powerhouse Books

Ali collects the best of Steve Schapiro's images of late fighter Muhammad Ali, many in print for the first time ever. The collection offers a glimpse of a star on the rise, Schapiro spent five days with Ali at the tender age of 21, before he had even adopted the Muhammad Ali name, when he still went by Cassius Clay. Seen together, these photographs provide an indelible portrait of the early life of one of the most talented, graceful, controversial, athletic, and influential American figures of the 20th century.